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Disruptors
Understand the forces that are shaping the future of business and technology to navigate the rapid changes in Canada’s tech landscape. Innovation is driving business productivity and sustainability across industries in Canada and beyond. How can Canadian entrepreneurs make the most of these new tec...
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Defending the Deep: Securing Canada’s Underwater Sovereignty
Canada’s future security doesn’t just lie in the skies or across its borders — it lies beneath the waves. Newfoundland and Labrador, long defined by i...
The Canada Project (Trailer)
Canada stands at a crossroads. Become a leader or continue to ride shotgun. The choice is obvious. But global political and economic uncertainty deman...
REBOOT: Agentic AI - The Next Frontier
AI is moving beyond passive outputs toward autonomous action. In this episode, John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik explore Agentic AI, a new class of AI...
REBOOT: AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World?
With a growing global population and climate challenges reshaping food production, Canada has a golden opportunity to lead the ag-tech revolution. But...
REBOOT: Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres
What does it take to power the intelligence economy of the future? In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse and...
REBOOT: AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption
In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse, Senior VP of RBC, and Sonia Sennik, CEO of Creative Destruction Lab, d...
Canada’s AI Opportunity with Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon
Are we ready for the AI era or are we stuck in an imagination gap? In this special 200th episode, recorded live at Creative Destruction Lab’s Super Se...
Space: The Low Earth Orbit Movement
From Arctic sovereignty to wildfire response, Canada’s challenges are increasingly being solved by the low earth orbital satellites less than 1000km f...
Building Global from Canada: Shopify’s Entrepreneurial Ambition
What does it take to transform a startup into Canada’s second-largest company in just a decade? Sonia Sennik and John Stackhouse discuss his conversat...
Agentic AI - The Next Frontier
AI is moving beyond passive outputs toward autonomous action. In this episode, John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik explore Agentic AI, a new class of AI...
Beyond Offsets: How to Build a Carbon Removal Industry
Carbon offsets aren’t enough. To truly tackle climate change, we need a global industry dedicated to pulling carbon out of the air and at massive scal...
Detect Early, Treat Early: Innovations Shaping the Fight Against Cancer
Early detection remains the single most effective strategy for treating cancer, significantly enhancing survival rates and outcomes. Join hosts John S...
How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize on the Buy Canadian Movement
The “Buy Canadian” movement has surged during talks of tariffs, often highlighting consumer goods. How can Canadian tech companies take advantage of t...
The Cleantech Edge: Tackling Methane Emissions with Canadian Innovation
With global energy demands surging and climate concerns intensifying, Canada finds itself in a rare position: rich in natural resources, top technical...
Scammers, Fraud, and Deepfakes: The AI Arms Race
With cybercriminals leveraging AI to fuel scams and misinformation, how do we verify what's real? Joined by cybersecurity experts Shuman Ghosemajumder...
Entrepreneurs seek to boost Canada’s prosperity and productivity
How can Canadians unleash their competitive spirit and rediscover the drive to build bigger, faster, and smarter? Serial entrepreneur and tech investo...
AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World?
With a growing global population and climate challenges reshaping food production, Canada has a golden opportunity to lead the ag-tech revolution. But...
Inside the WEF: AI, Geopolitics, and Canada's Place in the Future Economy
What happens in Davos doesn’t stay in Davos, it shapes the future of business, technology, and global markets. In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: Th...
Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres
What does it take to power the intelligence economy of the future? In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse and...
From AI to the Final Frontier: Tech Trends Shaping 2025
In this year-end episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik take a look back at 2024’s groundbreaking tec...
On the Move: Canada’s EV Revolution
In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik dive into the rapidly advancing world of electric vehicles (...
Commercializing Space (Part 2): From Frontier to Marketplace
Part two of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era continues with a focus on how space technology is transitioning from exploration to commercial viabil...
Space Economy (Part 1): Opportunities and Challenges
In part one of this two-part series on Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik discuss the unfolding potential of the s...
Educating for the Future: Post-Secondary Innovation
In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik explore the dynamic role of generative AI in education...
Biotech Boom: Canada’s Life Sciences Revolution
In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse and Sonia Sennik dive into the rapidly evolving world of life sciences,...
AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption
In this episode of Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, hosts John Stackhouse, Senior VP of RBC, and Sonia Sennik, CEO of Creative Destruction Lab, d...
Disruptors x CDL: Canada’s Innovation Journey
Welcome to the first episode of Disruptors x CDL - The Innovation Era, where host John Stackhouse teams up with Sonia Sennik, CEO of Creative Destruct...
Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era
Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era is a limited podcast series exploring the innovators and technologies reshaping Canada’s economy. Hosted by John...
REBOOT: AI is Disrupting Canada’s Labour Landscape
New technology has rarely led to fewer jobs, though it often impacts the way we work — eliminating old ways of doing things to create new opportunitie...
REBOOT: Hydrogen Horizons: Powering a Green Path Forward
The green hydrogen race is on, and billions are at stake. Countries big and small view hydrogen as an opportunity to convert wind, solar, gas and nucl...
REBOOT: Mechanical Minds: Exploring the World of AI Robots
The global race to apply AI to robotics in a way that can make society better is on — offering unprecedented efficiency, precision and enhancing produ...
REBOOT: Navigating Canada’s Carbon Frontier
Carbon markets are at the forefront of climate action and the mobilization of carbon credits and offsets are critical — where each carbon credit holds...
REBOOT: Forging Canada’s path in a future filled with AI
This is our 7th season of Disruptors and we’re kicking it off with a bang!
There is a tech wave surging and it was truly the summer of...
AI: Ready or Not?
This was the year artificial intelligence got its wings — especially generative AI — and the tech is soaring to new heights.
Whether you’...
The OceanTech Wave: Diving Deep for Climate Action
AI and emerging technology are critical in reducing emissions and helping us better understand the ocean’s impact on climate.
Canada is a leader...
Cultivation Innovation: A New Era for Canadian Agriculture
AI, automation, robots, and drones are all impacting the way we grow food — and it’s happening right here on Canadian soil.
With a growing popul...
The Tech Outlook: Bumpy Now, Bright Soon
It’s no secret that the last few years have been rough for tech, but the sector also has a unique ability to look beyond the clouds and see opportunit...
Canada’s Big Plans for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear innovation is making a resurgence as an attractive power source for a net-zero future — from large legacy reactors to small modular reactors (...
AI is Disrupting Canada’s Labour Landscape
New technology has rarely led to fewer jobs, though it often impacts the way we work — eliminating old ways of doing things to create new opportunitie...
Building Blocks: Solving the Supply Shortage with Prefabricated Homes
Housing affordability has become a crisis in Canada, and we must prioritize innovative designs, building techniques, and technology to boost productiv...